OmniWeb 6, Firefox 23 Now Available

7 August 20131,001 viewsNo Comment

Death and renewal. Mozilla has pushed out Firefox 23 and perhaps the most notable thing about it, unless you’re a developer, is the death of the “blink” tag. For his part, OmniGroup’s Ken Case has updated and released of OmniWeb 6, which does feature the latest version of WebKit, but it’s wrapped in the OmniWeb 5 user interface.

“Well, good news: I just had a brief vacation, and now have the 64-bit version of OmniWeb in a reasonably stable state,” writes OmniGroups’ Ken Case. “The user interface of this version has barely been touched (sorry, I’m afraid it’s still using drawers rather than a sidebar!); but it’s had a whole lot of work done under the hood—enough so that I’ve decided to call this version 6, not another version 5.x.”

• OmniWeb 6 (download)
— Now 64-bit and uses the latest version of WebKit
— DuckDuckGo added as a search option
— Ad-blocking support for CSS and JavaScript resources
— Release notes, including known issues
— Requires OS X 10.8 or later

A few side notes for OmniWeb 6. First, if you have v5.x installed, don’t delete it, otherwise you could lose the existing prefs and workspaces. Also, as v6.0 uses the latest version of WebKit, OmniWeb inherits active logins, which is always an interesting side-effect of third-party WebKit browsers.

Tried either Firefox 23 or OmniWeb 6? Sound off in the comments below…